So after our trip to the picturesque Puu Jih Shih Temple in Sandakan we checked out the rest of the town. We visited a church which is part of the heritage trail called St. Michael’s and All Angels Church. A quaint little church finished in the early 1900s, it reminds of those little village churches […]
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Puu Jih Shih Temple, Sandakan
It’s been a while since my last post about Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary — Sabah, Malaysia, and I’ve got some other travel stuff coming up so I better finish this series off! We headed off to Sandakan after that and had lunch at the Ocean King Seafood restaurant, despite it being touted as a tourist […]
Sepilok Jungle Resort – Checking in And Relaxing & Review
So we arrived at Sepilok Jungle Resort in the middle of the afternoon, we had some time to relax. We took dinner at the restaurant inhouse – it was actually pretty good and quite cheap. I love this fern they serve there, they call it Sabah Vege (Sayur Manis) – delicious! Anyway we had some […]
The Final Morning at Labuk Bay Resort & The Trip Back to Sandakan
So after our previous day in Labuk Bay Resort we got up early for breakfast and glorious sunshine. Yeah it was real hot! Feeding time was around 11am, we already had plenty of pictures though so we just enjoyed the natural habitat. The turn-out wasn’t as good as the previous day anyway (it wasn’t that […]
Labuk Bay Resort – Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary – After Lunch
So after a short rest from morning feeding (time to copy the pictures to my Nexto PSD) it was off out to another location for lunch. We headed out in the muddy yet reliable truck, you can see the storm in the distance that we drove into.. The place we had lunch was really in […]
Labuk Bay Resort – Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary – Sandakan, Sabah
So we arrived in Sabah to rain sadly, we got there quite early in the morning direct to Sandakan from KL and were picked up promptly by our first guide Adam – a very knowledgeable local tribal guy from the Sandakan area (I forget which tribe he was from, but he said they were river […]
The Planning of the Sabah Trip – Costs and Itinerary
Earlier in the year I went for a 5 day trip to Sabah, you might remember I posted a picture of Jackie the Orang Utan when I got back. Well now I think it’s time I started writing about it. We started out by asking around for a good agent, as we had a limited […]
Sandakan is beautiful
It’s really beautiful here, fluffy white clouds and endless blue skies. We spent the weekend checking out the proboscis monkeys and yesterday with the orang utans at the sepilok sanctuary. Today will check out a bit more of sandaka before heading to the airport for a flight to kk. Then a nice seafood lunch at […]
